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Mauna Kea observatory

by

Wally Pacholka/Novapix

Reference

o-mka01-00095

Date

2009-12-20

Mauna Kea's Winter Milky Way stretching from Alpha & Beta Centauri, the Southern Cross, Sirius, Orion, Gemini, and Auriga over the giant telescopes of the UK's Infrared Telescope, Japan's Subaru telescope, the Keck twin telescopes and NASA's Infrared Telescope below a distant Haleakala Crater on Maui.